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NATIONAL 
PARKS TOUR 



For tlie Purpose of Disseminating 
Information and Promoting Interest 
m our Great National Playgrounds 



UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE 

American Civic Association 



BUSINESS MANAGEMENT 

THE BUREAU OF UNIVERSITY TRAVEL 

31 TRINITY PLACE BOSTON. MASS. 



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THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR 

WASHINGTON 

March 28, 1916. 
Dear Mr. Watrous: I am very much interested in the National 
Parks Tour which the American Civic Association has planned 
for the coming summer. The itinerary of the Association is 
splendidly designed to give all who plan to make the proposed 
trip a comprehensive survey of not only most of the principal 
national parks, but also a very large portion of the points of inter- 
est of the West. An itinerary similar to this one the Department 
of the Interior would be pleased to see followed by many thou- 
sands of eastern tourists during the season of 1916. 

Cordially yours, 
(Signed) ARDRIEUS A. JONES 
Mr. RICHARD B. WATROUS Acting Secretary 

Secretary, The American CiTic Association 
Union Trust Bldg,, Washington, D. C. 



DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

WASHINGTON 
Office of 
The Assistant to the Secretary 

March 28, 1916. 
Dear Mr. Watrous: The American Civic Association, through 
its officers and members, has always taken a deep interest in 
the welfare of our national parks, and its support of the Park 
Service bill, introduced by Congressman Kent, has been par- 
ticularly timely. It is very fitting, therefore, that the members of 
the Association should now have the opportunity of making a 
trip through practically all of the larger national parks. This 
trip should result in stimulating, through the organization, still 
more interest in these great western playgrounds. 

The Department of the Interior is making strenuous efforts 
to develop the parks for the coming season and will be only too 
glad to welcome the members of the Civic Association, giving 
them every opportunity to see the scenic beauties of each park 
visited. I will be glad to instruct the supervisors of the various 
national parks to extend every courtesy to the members of the 
Association. 

Hoping that those members who will find it possible to make 
this tour of the national parks will run into the himdreds, and 
that the tour in every way will be an imqualified success, I am, 

Cordially yours, 
(Signed) STEPHEN T. MATHER 
Mr. RICHARD B. WATROUS Assistant to the Secretary 

Secretary, The American Civic Association 
Union Trust Bldg., Washington, D. C. 






THE PLAN 

4T THE annual meeting of the American Civic 
/-\ Association, held in Washington last January, 
^ -^ there was an enthusiastic discussion of the 
needs and possibilities of our great National 
Parks. It was soon evident that one of the greatest 
needs was that of getting acquainted with them. The 
summer of 191 5 saw a good start made, yet only a 
start. There are fourteen National Parks now. Few 
who read these words have visited more than one of 
them or could name more than six. And yet here 
are great playgrounds within our own borders where 
Nature has lavished her marvels and has provided 
scenes of beauty and sublimity, in some cases 
absolutely unique in all the world. 

The suggestion was made at Washington that the 
Civic Association plan another great conference on 
National Parks. This should be one lasting not four 
days, but from six weeks to two months, and should 
meet, not in the New Willard Hotel, but in the 
National Parks themselves. The suggestion was 
received with enthusiasm. The National Parks 
Tour outlined in the following pages is the result. 
The Department of the Interior has promised to 
give the Civic Association its hearty support and 
cooperation. In each of the parks visited the 
Resident Supervisor will give the Association special 
attention, while Washington representatives of the 
Department will probably be present with the party 
through one or more of the larger parks. Universi- 
ties, colleges, chambers of commerce, and other 
organizations along the route are offering their 
assistance and are arranging interesting programs. 

The American Civic Association extends a cordial 
invitation to all who are interested to come and learn 



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to know the scenic resources of our own land. It now 
seems probable that this invitation will meet with 
wide response. Numbers will be strictly limited to 
the capacity of one special train. This number can 
be comfortably cared for everywhere, without 
confusion. 

An essential feature of the plan will be the lec- 
tures and conferences not only on questions con- 
nected with our National Parks, but on various other 
problems of interest to members of the Civic Associa- 
tion. In many instances the sections visited have 
achieved great success in the solution of some great 
civic problem. The conferences will bring us in 
touch with representative men who will tell us how 
the deed was done. Thus in Minneapolis we shall 
hear about Minnesota's successful campaign against 
the "little red schoolhouse;" the possibilities of city- 
planning will be emphasized in the presence of the 
concrete examples that the young and vigorous cities 
furnish us along our route; while in San Diego the 
commission form of government may be observed 
at first hand and interesting comparisons made by 
those whose own cities are, or are not, so governed. 

The Civic Association undertakes this plan in the 
belief that it will not only promote intelligent interest 
in the National Parks, but will make for a broader, 
better citizenship on the part of every participant. 
The Business Management has been placed in the 
hands of the Bureau of University Travel of Boston, 
who had charge of the successful European tour of 
the American Civic Association in 19 13. All com- 
munications regarding business details should be 
addressed to 

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AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION 

31 Trinity Place, BOSTON, MASS. 



THE ITINERARY 

June 22 Leave Chicago in the morning. The afternoon in 
Madison. The Madison Board of Commerce, in con- 
junction with other Madison organizations, has 
extended a cordial invitation to the Association to be 
their guests while in the city. They have arranged a 
dinner at which President Van Hise of the University 
of Wisconsin, and others, will address us. 

June 23 St. Paul, Minneapolis. The State Capitol with 
its notable examples of mural decoration, the new 
Minneapolis Art Gallery, the splendid park system. 
Minneapolis is one of the few cities of the country own- 
ing and maintaining an acre or more of parks for each 
hundred of population. 

Evening conference on "The Problem of the Rural 
School and Minnesota's Solution of It." Address by 
Dean L. D. Coffman of the University of Minnesota. 

June 24 Sleeper to Omaha. A short stop en route at 

June 25 Denver. A drive about the city. Leave in the evening. 

June 26 En route. 

June 27 The Yellowstone National Park. Enter and leave by 
to the Gardiner Gateway. Five and one-half days coach- 

"'^ ^ ing trip through the Park. Accommodations provided 

at the excellent Park hotels. 

The Yellowstone, established in 1872, is the oldest, 
largest, and best known of the National Parks. It con- 
tains more and greater geysers than all the rest of the 
world together. Akin to these hot-water volcanoes are 
the hot springs with their terraces of many colors. 
Each park has its own peculiar charm. The hot-water 
formations make the Yellowstone unique, but it is quite 
worthy of distinction for other reasons also. Its petri- 
fied forest is unexcelled in America. Its Grand Canyon 
is a spectacle of beauty and grandeur surpassed only 
by the incomparable "Titan of Chasms" in Arizona. 
Its 3,300 square miles of mountain, valley and lake 
form the largest wild-animal preserve in the world. 
Here thousands of elk, moose, deer, and antelope live 
without fear of the hunter's gun, while the bear — brown, 
black, cinnamon and even the giant grizzly — show no 
signs of ferocity, but rank as inoffensive and highly 
respected citizens of this animal paradise. 



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The first recorded visit to the Yellowstone was in 
1810, when a trapper, fleeing the Indians, happened 
upon it. Even as late as i860, after a government 
expedition had charted the region and had proved the 
wonders to be fact, not fancy, it was hard to find a 
believing audience. Nowadays no one questions the 
facts, yet none comprehend them except those who have 
seen for themselves. 

July 3 En route via Helena, Montana. 

July 4 Glacier National Park. Automobile by way of Lake 
\° 7 "^^^ ^^^y ^° Many Glacier Hotel. Restful afternoon at 

^^ ^ this beautiful spot. Next day a horseback trip to Ice- 

berg Lake. The third day by horseback over Piegan 
Pass to Going-to-the-Sun Chalets. The fourth day 
down Lake St. Mary by boat and thence by automobile 
to Glacier Park Hotel. This program is possible for all 
and does not require experience in horseback riding. 
Many delightful alternatives are available, if preferred. 
Here for the first time we come in close contact with 
primitive Indian life in the encampment of the Black- 
foot tribe. 

Glacier National Park was established in 1910 and 
is the newest, save one, of all the parks. It is 1,534 
square miles in extent and gets its name from the sixty 
mighty rivers of ice within its borders. Yet these are 
by no means its only, perhaps not even its chief attrac- 
tion. It is said that nowhere else in the world is Alpine 
beauty found in such diversity and luxuriance. 

July 8 Spokane. Nearly 150,000 people now live where 
there were none less than forty years ago! The day 
will be spent in driving about the city, followed by a 
conference in the evening on "City-Planning" with 
special reference to the "Development of a Park 
System" in a new and rapidly growing municipality. 
Among the speakers will be W. S. McCrea, President 
of the Spokane Chamber of Commerce, and L. A. 
White, member of the Board of Park Commissioners. 
July 9 Seattle. Hotel Washington. Sunday will be spent 
TtUv 10 Q^i^tly without program. Next day we shall visit the 
University of Washington and inspect the harbor 
developments, the park system, etc. An address by 
Professor Edmond S. Meany, of the University of 
Washington, on "Journeys of Other Days — the Lewis 
and Clark Expedition and Its Results." 



AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION 

July 11 Rainier National Park. A two days' excursion from 
Till*** 12 Tacoma. An interesting four-hour auto ride brings us 
July 12 within the confines of the Park. This was established 
in 1899. The mountain, of course, dominates every- 
thing, towering nearly three miles above the sea, and 
nearly two miles above its immediate base. It possesses 
the most extensive and impressive glacier system in 
the United States. Fourteen great ice-rivers flow down 
from its ancient crater. 

Less than an hour from the entrance to the Park and 

we are in Paradise Valley, at the Camp of the Clouds 

(6,000 feet), up to the snow-line. The great Nisqually 

Glacier, said to be the finest south of Alaska, is just at 

hand. There is opportunity to explore this and to 

indulge in all sorts of interesting "winter" sports, while 

those less strenuously inclined find enjoyment quite as 

keen, as they rest upon a thick carpet of wild flowers 

and gaze at the superb spectacle of the mountain in 

its various moods. 

July 13 Portland. Hotal Multnomah. Excursion by auto- 

T 1*° 14 "mobile over the new Columbia Highway, destined to 

^ rank among the famous scenic highways of the world. 

July 15 En route for San Francisco, an 800-mile sail on one 

of the large fast boats of the Great Northern Steamship 

Company. Those who prefer may make this trip by 

rail via the Shasta Route. Such preference must be 

expressed at the time when final payment is remitted 

for the tour. The extra cost will be 1 10. 

Crater Lake National Park. A limited number may 

substitute the excursion to Crater Lake for the days in 

San Francisco. The extra cost will be $15. Such 

preference must be expressed not later than the date 

of making final payment for the tour. 

July 16 San Francisco. Hotel Bellevue, room for two, with 

T \^ otx private bath. Drive about the city and to Golden Gate 

July 20 p^^j^ Excursions to Berkeley and Palo Alto. There 

will be a conference in the famous Greek Theater at 

Berkeley, at which Dean Walter Morris Hart, of the 

University of California, and others will speak; theme, 

"Conservation." 

July 21 The Yosemite. The Yosemite Valley is world- 

T i*°24 famous. Measured in terms of miles, it does not seem 

•'^^ impressive. The valley is 7 miles long and about 

I mile wide. But this relatively limited floor-area only 



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makes the sheer immensity of the granite walls the 
more imposing as they tower from 3,ocxd to 6,cxx) feet 
above our heads. 

Aeons ago Mother Nature decided to fashion a 
"Land of Enchantment." First she cracked the hard 
Sierra granite and then sent grinding glaciers and rush- 
ing torrents along the seam, gouging out a valley. 
Joyously she hastened her task. Mother Nature 
hastens slowly. She was countless millenniums at the 
work, yet the valley grew so much more rapidly than 
the little valleys that came to meet it on either side 
that they soon found themselves hanging high up on 
the granite cliffs at the meeting place, and to this day 
the streams that made them must take great flying 
leaps, 600, 1,000, 1,600 feet, into the deeper valley 
below. 

The glory of the Yosemite is its waterfalls. The 
lowest of the eight great ones is twice the height of 
Niagara. 

The valley, though the best known portion, is but a 
very small part of the Yosemite National Park. There 
are three groves of Big Trees within its borders. These 
great Sequoias are the oldest living things in the world. 
Many were large trees when the Greeks built the 
Parthenon. 

We shall have four full days in the valley, with head- 
quarters in one of the comfortable camps that are so 
popular. The excursion to the Mariposa Grove is 
included. Other excursions are optional. 

July 25 Leave the Yosemite. 

July 26 Los Angeles. Hotel Alexandria. Excursions to 
*o Pasadena, Catalina Island, and the Asphalt Springs of 

■'" ^ Rancho La Brea. These springs have been for cen- 

turies the most effective natural animal trap known, and 
thousands have been caught in their sticky pools. The 
skeletons of elephants, camels, sloths, saber-toothed 
tigers, bears and myriads of smaller animals are being 
gradually dug out. 

July 28 San Diego. Hotel U. S. Grant. The Exposition with 
to its charming grounds and quaintly beautiful buildings 

July 29 jg QYQn more attractive than last year. The Director, 
Mr. Hewett, will welcome us. At an evening conference 
prominent San Diego members of the Association will 
describe the actual working of the commission form 
of government now in force in that city. 

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July 30 En Route across deserts, barren but interesting, 

to the cool plateau of Arizona. 

July 31 Grand Canyon. There is nothing in the world like the 

August 1 Grand Canyon of the Colorado. Where standards of 
comparison are wholly lacking, attempts at description 
are futile. Mr. Robert Yard says: "It constitutes one 
of the most astonishing phenomena in nature and one 
of the most stupendous sights in the world." 

A large tract along the south rim has been set apart 
as a national monument. The chief difference between a 
"national monument" and a "national park" is that in 
the former case the Government protects the region 
but does not undertake its development by means of 
roads, etc., as it does in the case of the national parks. 
Meals will be provided at the El Tovar. The Rim 
Drive is included. The descent into the Canyon, which 
some will not care to undertake, is not included. There 
will be ample time for those who wish to make this trip 
to do so. The extra cost will be I5. 

August 3 Arrive Kansas City in the evening. 

August 4 Kansas City. Inspect the notable park system, 
leaving in the evening for Chicago. 

August 5 Chicago. Arrive in the morning. 



PRICES 
Chicago, morning of June 22, to Chicago, August 5 ... $530 00 
Chicago, evening of June 23, rail and Pullman only, (no 
food) to Omaha, join party at Omaha, June 24, (4.30 

p.m.) thence to Chicago, August 5 509 00 

Minneapolis, evening of June 23, to Minneapolis, August 5 . 520 00 
Omaha, afternoon of June 24, to Omaha, August 5 . . . . 495 00 
Denver, evening of June 25, through Grand Canyon, thence 

direct to Denver, August 3 475 00 



PARTIAL TOURS 

Prices will be quoted and registrations accepted for partial 
tours only with the understanding that the places must be re- 
leased if needed for applicants for the complete tour. 



SANTA FE AND THE 
PAJARITO PARK 

In cooperation with the School of American 
Archaeology, an extension tour is offered to Santa 
Fe and the sections adjacent, including a camping 
trip with headquarters in the Rito de los Frijoles. 
This is a beautiful canyon, whose perpendicular 
walls, 500 feet high, are filled with innumerable cliff- 
dwellings of a vanished race. Great pueblos are 
near by, and other antiquities that rival in interest, 
if not in character, any that Europe has to show. 
This is exactly the most favorable season for the 
visit. The high altitudes and cloudless skies com- 
bine to give a cool, delightful climate and ideal 
camping conditions. 

Those who take this tour will have an extra day in 
Los Angeles and San Diego, a day at Adamana, 
whence they will visit the Petrified Forest, and reach 
Santa Fe the afternoon of August 5. The additional 
cost will be $110 and the tour ends the evening of 
August 20 in Chicago. 

Aug. 5 Arrive Santa Fe. 

Aug. 6 Sante Fe. A quaint old town that was ancient when 

. *° the Pilgrims landed. It is full of interest of all sorts. 

"^* In the old Spanish Palace which is now the home of the 

School of American Archseology, Lew Wallace wrote 

Ben Hur. 

DAYS IN CAMP 

Aug. 9 Leaving Santa Fe by rail at 10.10 a.m., we arrive at 
Buckman in about an hour. Thence it is 8 miles by 
pony trail and 12 by carriage road to the Rito. We 
reach the rim by mid-afternoon and descend the 500- 
foot sides to the floor of the Canyon. Here the Indians 
pitch the tents and make ready the beds of fragrant 
pine boughs. There are innumerable tiny dwellings of 

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the prehistoric cave-men in the cliffs. These are dry 
and clean. Some will wish to spread their pine boughs 
there. Good ordinary beds will be available also, if 
any prefer them. 

The hearty supper around the camp-table will be 
followed by a campfire talk, outlining the program for 
the following day, and telling the story of the aborig- 
inal Americans, whose strange homes, deserted for 
centuries, are all about us. All will be ready for 
"candles out" at 9 p.m., and will sleep in the cool, pure 
air as they have never slept before. 
Aug. 10 The morning will be spent visiting the circular 
pueblo of Tuyoni, a city in itself. Out of its fragments 
those who know will cause it to rise again as they tell the 
life-history of its people. Nearby a circular, paved area 
brings visions of the ceremonial dances of these folk. 

After a hearty dinner in the open air, we shall be 
ready to turn to the age-old cliff-dwellings in the north 
wall of the canyon, tracing clan symbolism, noting how 
clans were grouped, the development of clans and 
inter-relationships of primitive peoples, the rude 
beginnings of architecture, and the transition period 
from cave-dwellings to pueblos. About a campfire 
again at night will come the outline for the morrow, 
questions and an informal discussion of the day's 
experiences, and campfire stories full of local color. 
Aug. 11 The beautiful Falls of the Rito, the Rim Ruins of 
the Mesa. Excursion to the Great Ceremonial Cave, 
which will furnish a dramatic setting for a discussion of 
the religious ceremonies and beliefs of the aboriginal 
Americans. That night an Ancestral Campfire will be 
the climax of the day. 
Aug. 12 This day will be devoted to an excursion to the 
Shrine of the Stone Lions and the Painted Cave, about 
15 miles from the Canyon. Those who prefer may visit 
the Santa Clara Pueblo to witness the annual Harvest 
Dance of the Indians of this Pueblo. All return to the 
Canyon for the night. 
Aug. 13 Break camp after breakfast and leave the Canyon 
about 9 A.\\ for Tchirege, arriving at noon. The 
section about there is full of interest. 
Aug. 14 The Indians make an early start for Alamo Canyon, 
where we camp that night. We spend the day lingering 
along the road, at places with strange names and stranger 
histories, in settings picturesque beyond description. 



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Aug. 15 A day full of interest even for those who may deem it 
wise not to undertake the entire program. The ener- 
getic will be up early and will climb to the eastern 
point for the view toward the Sangre de Cristo 
Mountains, 20 to 25 miles eastward, while the mag- 
nificent panorama of the Rio Grande Valley lies just 
below. Later in the morning there will be an excursion 
to the ancient pueblo of Sandia, i>^ miles southwest of 
camp, on top of another high mesa. This gives oppor- 
tunity for a study of the comparative age of small 
"house groups" in relation to larger pueblos. 

In the afternoon, the pueblos of Otowi, where pre- 
liminary excavations in 191 5 added much to our 
knowledge of the culture of the old inhabitants, the 
ancestors of the present San Ildefonso Indians, who 
will be among our guides. Tramp up Otowi Canyon to 
examine the "tent" rocks of Otowi. Climb to top of 
mesa immediately north of Otowi to watch our Indian 
guides making camp in the Guages Canyon in the dis- 
tance, and get first view of Puye just before the mag- 
nificent mountain sunset. 

Camp for the night in Guages Canyon, 4 to 5 miles 
from Otowi. 

Aug. 16 Excursion up the Guages Canyon, through the high- 
walled Box Canyon, where we find the Forest Service 
Trail leading us up to the mesa, on the point of which 
we visit the Pueblo of the Many Kivas. A magnificent 
panorama is presented. In the afternoon we pick up 
the Forest Service Trail again and arrive before Puye 
for the night's camp. 

Aug. 17 We lay siege to Puye, the clifi^-homes, restored Kiva, 
climb stone stairways, worn deep into the rock by the 
passage of thousands of moccasined feet, when, cen- 
turies ago, they greeted the rising sun. 

That evening comes the last campfire talk. This will 
be the latest word-picture of the "Vanished Race," 
their everyday life, and philosophy. There will be 
questions and answers. 

Aug. 18 Break camp early. Visit to Santa Clara Pueblo en 
route to Espanola, where we take the early afternoon 
train to Santa Fe, arriving at 4. 1 5 p.m. 

Aug. 20 Reach Chicago in the evening. 



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LIST OF THE NATIONAL PARKS IN THE 
ORDER OF THEIR ESTABLISHMENT 

Hot Springs. Middle Arkansas; established 1832. Area, 1)4 square miles 
46 hot springs, possessing curative properties. Many hotels and boarding houses. 

Yellowstone. Northwestern Wyoming; established 1872. Area, 3,348 
square miles. More geysers than in all the rest of the world together; boiling 
springs; mud volcanoes; petrified forests; Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, 
remarkable for gorgeous coloring; large lakes; many large streams and waterfalls; 
vast wilderness, inhabited by deer, elk, bison, moose, antelope, bear, mountain 
sheep, beaver, etc., constituting the greatest wild bird and animal preserve in 
the world; altitude 6,000 to 11,000 feet; exceptional trout fishing. 

YosEMiTE. Middle eastern California; established 1890. Area, 1,125 square 
miles. Valley of world-famed beauty; lofty cliffs; romantic vistas; many water- 
falls of extraordinary height; three groves of big trees; high Sierra; large areas 
of snowy peaks; Waterwheel Falls; good trout fishing. 

Sequoia. Middle eastern California; established 1890. Area, 237 square 
miles. The Big Tree national park; 12,000 sequoia trees over 10 feet in diameter, 
some 25 to 36 feet in diameter; towering mountain ranges; startling precipices; 
fine trout fishing. 

General Grant. Middle eastern California; established 1890. Area, 4 
square miles. Created to preserve the celebrated General Grant Tree, ^S feet 
in diameter; 6 miles from Sequoia National Park, and under same management. 

Casa Grande Ruin. Arizona; established in 1892. Prehistoric Indian ruin. 

Mount Rainier. West central Washington; established 1899. Area, 324 
square miles. Largest accessible single-peak glacier system; 14 glaciers, some of 
large size; 48 square miles of glacier, 50 to 500 feet thick; wonderful sub-alpine 
wild-flower fields. 

Crater Lake. Southwestern Oregon; established 1902. Area, 249 square 
miles. Lake of extraordinary blue in crater of extinct volcano, no inlet, no 
outlet; sides 1,000 feet high; interesting lava formations; fine trout fishing. 

Wind Cave. South Dakota; established 1903. Large natural cavern. 

Sully's Hill. North Dakota; established 1904. Wooded hilly tract on 
Devil's Lake. 

Mesa Verde. Southwestern Colorado; established 1906. Area, 77 square 
miles. Most notable and best preserved prehistoric cliff-dwellings in United 
States, if not in the world. 

Platt. Southern Oklahoma; established 1906. Area, i^ square miles. 
Many sulphur and other springs, possessing medicinal value. 

Glacier. Northwestern Montana; established 1910. Area, 1,534 square 
miles. Rugged mountain region of unsurpassed Alpine character; 250 glacier- 
fed lakes of romantic beauty; 60 small glaciers; peaks of unusual shape; preci- 
pices thousands of feet deep; almost sensational scenery of marked individuality; 
fine trout fishing. 

Rocky Mountain. North middle Colorado; established 191 5. Area, 358 
square miles. Heart of the Rockies; snow range; peaks 11,000 to 14,250 feet 
altitude; remarkable records of glacial period. 



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CONDITIONS GOVERNING THE TOUR 

Members of the Civic Association may register upon payment 
of a |io deposit, returnable on demand any time prior to a 
month before the tour starts. Others should send a guest-fee 
of $s in addition to the deposit. This entitles them to mem- 
bership in the Civic Association for one year, as well as to the 
privileges of the tour. 

The Price includes every calculable expense, except such items 
as laundry, extras ordered at table, etc. All expenses in con- 
nection with programs are included as outHned in the itiner- 
ary, as are all hotel bills and fees, and transportation of 
passenger and baggage between station and hotel. The bag- 
gage allowance is 150 pounds. 

Accommodations. A standard Pullman berth (one-half section) ; 
hotels on the basis of two in a room without bath, except that 
room with private bath will be provided in San Francisco. 
More expensive accommodations will be obtained for those 
who wish to pay the difference. 

Business Management. All business details will be handled by 
the Bureau of University Travel, 31 Trinity Place, Boston, 
Massachusetts, to whom all questions should be addressed 
and the registration and guest-fee sent. 

RAILROADS USED 

Chicago, Minneapolis, Omaha. — 

Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. 
Omaha, Denver, Billings. — 

Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. 
Billings, Gardner, Helena. — 

Northern Pacific Railroad. 
Helena, Glacier, Seattle, Portland. — 

Great Northern Railroad. 
Portland, San Francisco. — 

Great Northern Steamship Company. 
San Francisco, Yosemite, Los Angeles. — 

Southern Pacific Railroad. 
Los Angeles, San Diego, Grand Canyon, Chicago. — 

Santa Fe Railroad. 



American Civic Association 



President J. HORACE McFARLAND, Harrisburg, Pa. 

First Vice-President . DR. JOHN NOLEN, Cambridge, Mass. 

Treasurer WILLIAM B. HOWLAND, New York City 

Secretary RICHARD B. WATROUS, Washington, D. C. 

MRS. EDWARD W. BIDDLE, Philadelphia, Pa. 

ARNOLD W. BRUNNER, New York City 

GEORGE B. DEALEY, Dallas, Texas 

J. C. NICHOLS, Kansas City, Mo. 

J. LOCKIE WILSON, Toronto, Canada 

MISS MARGARET WOODROW WILSON, Washington, D. C. 

CLINTON ROGERS WOODRUFF, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Vice- 
Presidents 



Executive Board 



Mrs. Elmer E. Black, New York City 

Miss Mabel T. Boardman, Washing- 
ton, D. C. 

Miss H. M. Dermitt, Pittsburgh, Pa. 

Charles M. Dow, Jamestown, N. Y. 

Morton D. Hull, Chicago, 111. 

Thomas H. Martin, Tacoma, Wash. 

Henry B. F. Macfarland, Washing- 
ton, D. C. 

Miss Louise Klein Miller, Cleve- 
land, Ohio 

Enos Mills, Estes Park, Col. 

Frederick Law Olmsted, Brookline, 
Mass. 



Lee J. NiNDE, Fort Wayne, Ind. 

Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker, Austin, 
Tex. 

Dr. Charles G. Plummer, Salt Lake 
City, Utah 

Rev. a. H. Scott, Perth, Canada 

Mrs. John Dickinson Sherman, Chi- 
cago, 111. 

Howard Strong, Minneapolis, Minn. 

T. C. Thompson, Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Rev. John Van Schaick, Jr., Washing- 
ton, D. C. 

Prof. Frank A. Waugh, Amherst, 
Mass. 



National Parks Committee 



Enos Mills, Chairman, Estes Park, 

Col. 
Henry A. Barker, Providence, R. I. 
Leonard Barron, Garden City, N. Y. 
Allen Chamberlain, Boston, Mass. 
William E. Colby, San Francisco, Cal. 
Hon. a. B. Farquhar, York, Pa. 
Hon. Walter L. Fisher, Chicago, 111. 
Herbert W. Gleason, Boston, Mass. 
Rodney Glisan, Portland, Oregon. 
Gilbert H. Grosvenor, Washington, 

D. C. 
Emerson Hough, Chicago, 111. 
LeRoy Jeffers, New York City. 
Warren H. Manning, Boston, Mass. 
George W. Marston, San Diego, Cal. 
Thomas H. Martin, Tacoma, Wash. 
Dr. John Nolen, Cambridge, Mass. 
George W. Perkins, New York City 



Dr. Charles G. Plummer, Salt Lake 
City, Utah 

Dr. Albert H. Pratt, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Prof. James Sturgis Pray, Cam- 
bridge, Mass. 

S. P. Ravenel, Asheville, N. C. 

Harris A. Reynolds, Boston, Mass. 

Laurence F. Schmeckebier, Washing- 
ton, D. C. 

Mrs. John Dickinson Sherman, Chi- 
cago, 111. 

Hon. T. C. Thompson, Chattanooga, 
Tenn. 

Edmund A. Whitman, Boston, Mass. 

William W. Woollen, Indianapolis, 
Ind. 

Robert Sterling Yard, Washington, 
D. C. 

Richard B. Watrous, Washington, 
D. C, Secretary. 



NATIONAL PARKS TOUR 
Director 

RICHARD B. WATROUS, Washington. D. C. 

Tour Manager 

CLINTON L. BABCOCK. 31 Trinity Place, Boston, Mass. 



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